Comments on: Here’s How Various Chinese Cities Expressed Their Anger At Japan

By: » Chinese Entrepreneur Gives Free Geely Cars To Owners Of Japanese Vehicles Destroyed During Diaoyu Island Protests – Or Does He? Beijing Cream

Thu, 11 Oct 2012 07:00:35 +0000

[...] 128,000 yuan (that’s 5.5 million yuan total, or $830,000), to former owners of Japanese cars that got destroyed during last month’s Diaoyu Islands protests. All people had to do to qualify for their free [...]

By: jeff

jeff — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 12:25:58 +0000

Id love to see this story develope. Made in China at its best.

By: Sue

Sue — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 06:03:03 +0000

I look forward to when they find out that Qingdao beer is 20% owned by a Japanese company

By: » And Now For Something Completely Different: People’s Daily’s Bathing Advisory Beijing Cream

Tue, 18 Sep 2012 03:02:15 +0000

[...] things happen outside the offices of People’s Daily, and other people do real work (like censoring videos — Youku, looking at you), People’s Daily Online has teamed up with Xinhua to bring you [...]

By: » You Can Protest The Diaoyu Islands All You Want, But Hell No To Democracy Beijing Cream

Mon, 17 Sep 2012 20:06:16 +0000

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By: Jess

Jess — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 17:57:54 +0000

And today is, of course, the 81st anniversary of the Mukden Incident. What a fun day this will be!

By: Liuzhou Laowai

Liuzhou Laowai — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 15:29:17 +0000

The only source I have is that I was at the meeting where they were told to assemble in the morning to protest. And the local protest was led by a teacher who also happens to be the party secretary.

In my experience, few students has heard of he islands before. They may have been mentioned and disputed “over the years”, but today’s students weren’t here over the years or were kids.

By: Boooooooooya

Boooooooooya — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 13:01:37 +0000

Have you got a source for any of that? In my experience Chinese students tend to be pretty damn nationalistic, with a particular focus on the ‘sacred territory’ of the motherland and how indivisible it is. Sure, the media and education system both encourage this, but I don’t see them needing to actively organise the protests and I’d certainly question the idea that they’d never heard of the islands before. There have been quite a few protests over the years.

By: Liuzhou Laowai

Liuzhou Laowai — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 12:42:01 +0000

“Could a further loosening of controls result in the enabling of free speech?”

Don’t be silly. The government didn’t just allow this; they organised it. There was zero loosening of controls.

Do you think for one second that if the demos had been in support of Falun Gong or against the Wang Lijun trial, they would have been allowed?

Generally the protesters are college students who have been told to protest by their departmental party leaders.

They never heard of the islands until two weeks ago, couldn’t find them on a map if they had to and have no idea why both countries want them.